Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2012

In its heyday in 2006 and 2007, Myspace was an incredibly vibrant community of artists, musicians, and impassioned activists and do-gooders. Nonprofits like Invisible Children and To Write Love on Her Arms were born from Myspace. Sadly, many nonprofits abandoned their communities on Myspace much too soon.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

YouTube is unveiling the first slate of shows to come out of its $100 million fund dedicated to amplifying the voices of Black creators, newly named the #YouTubeBlack Voices Fund. In June, we announced the #YouTubeBlack Voices Fund, a $100M fund to amplify Black voices & perspectives. Image: YouTube.

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The Verge

MARCH 26, 2021

Turns out it’s not as fun when someone you actually like is doing it, especially if that artist has previously made an entire album about ecological destruction. I don’t want to come off like I’m trying to cancel Gorillaz, or say it’s bad for artists to make money. O green world, don’t desert me now. Life comes at you fast.

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The Verge

JANUARY 27, 2022

YouTube is announcing 135 creators who will take part in the #YouTubeBlack Voices Fund, including a slate of 40 in the US and Canada. At launch, YouTube said the fund was an effort to “directly support Black creators and artists so that they can thrive on YouTube.” Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Elevating Latino Voices: How Nonprofits Can Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month From the rhythmic cadence of salsa music to the inspiring tales of pioneers who’ve blazed trails in fields as diverse as literature, science, and politics, the Latino community has enriched the American mosaic in countless ways.

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The Verge

JUNE 19, 2020

In celebration of the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth, Google has produced a video Doodle set to the first verse of the poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” often called “ The Black National Anthem.” The video features art from artist Loveis Wise, music produced by Elijah Jamal, and the poem is read by LeVar Burton.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

She commissioned it from an artist for $5,000 and even kept the receipts as proof. It wasn’t until this month that she ran into a problem: the artist, alleging that Melody owed him money, filed a copyright complaint claiming that she didn’t actually own her body — he did.

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The Verge

MARCH 9, 2021

We saw the need to start raising our voice a little more, to start organizing ourselves, to see what we could do, how we could make the case visible, how we could raise our voices among so many,” says Baruc. As the days passed, Wendy, a 33-year-old artist and designer, was still missing.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

WellSaid came out of the Allen Institute for AI incubator in 2019 , and its goal was to make synthetic voices that didn’t sound so robotic for common business purposes like training and marketing content. It achieved that first by basing its solution on Tacotron, a speech engine developed by Google and academic researchers.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

In a statement, Riot says: Seraphine is a digital influencer and artist in association with Riot Games. As a virtual artist, she will have many collaborators that help bring her to life musically, vocally, and artistically. Now League developer Riot has confirmed that it’s behind the character.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2012

“Does” is any action – post, like, share, mobile photo,create – expressed via a social voice. Enabling expression of the social voice will raise more$$$ than a direct donation. Charlie the Artist. He was asked to donate to cancer charity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

But this year in my current role leading the Active Voice Lab for Story & Strategy I did more listening than screening. During the first 10 years at Active Voice we commissioned outside firms and social scientists to give us qualitative feedback about our process and our partners’ satisfaction. Measurement'

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

Oh, well NFTs have certainly had their moment in 2021, but the question of what they do or what can be done with them has certainly been getting voiced more frequently as the speculative gold rush begins to cool off and people start to think more about how digital goods can evolve in the future.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 17, 2020

There are craftspeople selling their designs on individual sites, artists putting out weird and wonderful constructions, and larger companies providing funny, snide, or positively frightening masks. Why not treat yourself to Rexi Co’s mask with fringes that will sway as you sing (although your voice will be a little more muffled than Peck’s).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The joint venture company will create NFT photocards that will be traded on Hybe’s global fan-to-artist communication app, Weverse, said CEO of Hybe, Si-Hyuk Bang, and Chairman of Dunamu, Chi-Hyung Song, in a joint statement during the company’s briefing on Thursday. .

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

Is it voice chat? The architectural approach was inspired by conversations Ivy Ross, chief design officer of consumer devices at Google, and artist Lachlan Turczan had around the role of technology in our lives. What does the future of computing look like? Floating holographic displays? A generative AI fever dream with no escape?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

A first-person voice is best. Interview a professor, government official, or esteemed professional, such as a scientist, social worker, activist, or artist. Share Stories from the Field. For nonprofits that have staff members or volunteers in the field, definitely encourage them to send in reports with photos for blog posts.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Since its launch in 2019 , Earbuds has allowed users — whether they’re famous artists, NFL stars or ordinary people — to share their favorite playlists, livestream music like a DJ and comment on other people’s music picks. Then, on the app, you can add voice clips to comment on your song choices.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2021

Before the rise of social media accounts and company-run platforms, most fans for Korean artists basically were locked into direct engagement through fancafes — a kind of digital fan club that often required fans to prove their knowledge of a particular artist before gaining access to artists.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out. I'm an artist and an institution builder. The kind of art I do is art that gets engaged into the public.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

A first-person voice is best. Interview a professor, government official, or esteemed professional, such as a scientist, social worker, activist, or artist. Share Stories from the Field. For nonprofits that have staff members or volunteers in the field, definitely encourage them to send in reports with photos for blog posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2013

Take for example Robert Falls who is the artistic director of the Goodman Theater he not only uses his personal Twitter account to highlight the Goodman’s shows, but also to share creative ideas, connect with peers, and discuss the art of theatre. It’s not that you don’t think it is a good idea.

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The Verge

JULY 19, 2021

According to Louis Vuitton, the idea is that the Horizon speaker will serve as an artistic centerpiece of your living room or outfit, a unique blend of fashion and technology that aims to challenge what a portable speaker should look like, a goal in which it undoubtably has succeeded. The Horizon features a three-inch subwoofer, two 0.75-inch

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

And most importantly, it’s meant to make artists’ jobs easier, not replace them outright. “The goal all along was to make a tool for artists, to empower them. An artist making a model and textures and so on is only the very first step. “We want artists to create their own.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The story apparently picks up in the years following the events that transpire in Grand Theft Auto V , and Rockstar got Franklin’s voice actor, Shawn Fonteno, to reprise the role. Aside from new missions, the content drop will include lots of new music.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Not only does a hand-written thank you note make a strong impression upon the receiver, but it also makes you a better social media manager because it’s a practice in creative arts – and as all we know, the best social media managers are creative artists. 4) Read more books.

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Media Cause

JULY 29, 2022

Creativity is often associated with being an artist. If you’re not an artist by profession, it’s easy to tell yourself that you don’t have room to be creative at work, but that’s not true. Being creative means thinking outside of the box and allowing your imagination to have a voice. Anyone can be creative, it’s a mindset.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

And the arrival of AI on the scene has been tainted by early use-cases that allow anyone to create zero-effort impersonations of artists, cutting those creators out of their own creative process.” For artists and writers, the recent proliferation of AI tools has created a deeply frustrating game of whack-a-mole.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Blink Date — Is creating a voice-first dating app that matches users for 10-minute voice conversations, after which they can hope to make a match. Snap says the startups will take part in a curriculum that is led by tech founders, investors, artists, athletes and more. The company is based in the Netherlands.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Favianna Rodriguez Activist printmaker and digital artist. World Pulse is a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. Naomi Natale Founding Artist, One Million Bones. Listen: Big Vision Podcast interview (February 6, 2008) Read: Transcript on Have Fun, Do Good 5.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 30, 2023

This collaboration can provide mutual benefits for both your organization and the LGBTQ+ organizations, as you can share resources and amplify each other’s voices. Collaborate with local LGBTQ+ organizations : Team up with local LGBTQ+ organizations to support their initiatives, share resources, and amplify their voices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

I started contributing to Global Voices where I did blogging roundups from Cambodia. In 2007, I raised money to help sponsor the first Cambodian Bloggers conference and raised a lot of the money via Twitter as Shel Israel noted in his book, Twitterville.

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The Verge

JANUARY 31, 2021

Hosted by the progressive group Jewish Voices for Peace (JVP), the petition ultimately drew more than 20,000 signatures, including artist-activists like Michael Chabon, Peter Gabriel, and Wallace Shawn. “We Classifying the term as hate speech would end up stifling those criticisms — at least on Facebook.

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OpenAI

JULY 14, 2022

As part of our DALL·E 2 research preview, more than 3,000 artists from more than 118 countries have incorporated DALL·E into their creative workflows. The artists in our early access group have helped us discover new uses for DALL·E and have served as key voices as we’ve made decisions about DALL·E’s features.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As this is being written, we are still in the midst of the Spotify controversy , during which artists are abandoning the audio service in protest of that company’s contract with podcaster Joe Rogan. As mentioned, Bandcamp itself is free ; you purchase the music separately for varying prices set by the artists. Free trials: N/A.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

As Horton describes it, creators and artists have a variety of ways they can reach out to their fans and share their lives, but for the super fans out there, there is no way to truly express their adoration beyond the flat experience of commenting on an Instagram post or liking a tweet. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Beasts’ Night media, Spotify’s first CMO Sophia Bendz, Cyan Banister, artist T-Pain and music industry veteran Zach Katz, among others. that sounds like it came from an artist who’s mastered Ableton, but something from mayk.it wants to help people easily produce, own and share music that they can create using just their phone.

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